Sometimes, boring is best — and that's certainly true when you're trying to set a lander down on the surface of Mars, where any eventfulness is likely bad news. That's why scientists carefully chose a ...

Scientists peering into the very heart of hearts of the planet Mars have found a deeply unexpected structure. There, at the innermost core of the planet, InSight seismic data reveals a solid mass ...

PASADENA, Calif. -- NASA's new Mars lander has captured the first sounds of the Martian wind. The Jet Propulsion Laboratory released audio clips of the alien wind Friday. The low-frequency rumblings ...

NASA’s Mars InSight spacecraft, scheduled to launch on Saturday, is headed to one of the most boring places on the red planet. Its landing spot will be Elysium Planitia, an idyllically named expanse ...

No one is on board the spacecraft, which launched nearly seven months ago and has traveled some 300 million miles (482 million kilometers). But part of its mission is to inform efforts to one day send ...

MARS -- NASA released images on Monday showing what scientists are calling a "monster earthquake" on Mars. The agency says the quake shook the planet Mars on May 4, the 1,222nd Martian day, or sol, of ...